Shared Care Agreements

From 1st October 2023, Broadway Surgery will no longer accept new Shared Care agreements.  

These requests place an increasing amount of work on our Practice team, and at times, this additional workload is impacting our ability to deliver our core services to you, our patients.

Shared Care Agreements are not a ‘core’ part of our work in General Practice, and without adequate resources to deal with this increasing demand, we can’t continue to assure ourselves that patients are safely monitored to the highest standards of care.

If we were issuing your shared care medication on /just prior to 1st October 2023, we will continue to prescribe your medication.

Information for New Patients already on Shared Care and ADHD Medication

If you are joining Broadway Surgery and currently take shared care medication - see some examples below, please note that we are unable to take over shared care prescribing for your treatment. You would need to be prescribed your specialist medication through your existing specialist or service.

You will need to inform them of this, and we will be happy to assist by writing to them also. You can request a month's supply of medication from your previous GP surgery if they were already prescribing for you in the interim.

What this means for patients

If there is already a Shared Care Agreement in place for your care,your medication will need to come directly from your specialist team, as it will not be issued from this GP practice.

Please note that some GP practices are prescribing shared care medications, and you may wish to consider registering with them.

For patients with new treatment plans put in place by Specialists, responsibility for prescribing and monitoring your medication will remain solely with your Specialist. Rather than coming to the Practice for monitoring or reviews, you may be given an outpatient appointment at a hospital or other NHS location.

Examples of medication that may be affected: